Mimicry in Butterflies

by Reginald Crundall Punnett

[8] Untersuchungen über die Mimikry, 1893.

[9] The African mimetic butterflies have been recently monographed by Eltringham in a large and beautifully illustrated work—African Mimetic Butterflies, Oxford, 1910.

[10] Omitting the Hesperidae which hardly enter into questions of mimicry.

[11] The classification adopted is that used by Dr Sharp in the "Cambridge Natural History," Insects, vol. 2, 1901.

[12] Cf. Shelford, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1902.

[13] African Mimetic Butterflies, Oxford, 1910.

[14] These African species of Hypolimnas are frequently referred to the genus Euralia.

[15] Corresponding to the dorippus form of D. chrysippus (cf. [Pl. IX]) there is a rare form of trophonius known as dorippoides.

[16] These two forms are figured on Plate 10 of Eltringham's African Mimetic Butterflies.

[17] Acraea violae, the only representative of the group in S. India and Ceylon, is nevertheless a very abundant insect. It cannot, however, be said that it is definitely mimicked by any other species in this region.